Hong Yung Lee, ed.

This volume examines similar institutions in similar functional areas in China, Japan, and South Korea. To understand the findings, the authors suggest "institutional templates," a framework that considers the ways in which each country is oriented toward authority, exchange, and networks. The book as a whole demonstrates the intellectual utility of a broad comparative study of East Asian economic development.

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This book is an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and cultural neighbors whose development trajectories, though previously divergent, have been moving more recently toward convergence. This edited volume examines similar institutions in similar functional areas within the three countries. To understand the findings, the authors suggest a working concept of "institutional templates," a framework that considers the ways in which each country is oriented toward authority, exchange, and networks. We hope that the book as a whole will demonstrate the intellectual utility of a broad comparative study of East Asian economic development.

Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

OCLC: 863632172

Hong Yung Lee, ed.

Hong Yung Lee is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His reseach focuses on the states and economies of East Asia. He has edited several publications, including Korean Options in a Changing International Order (IEAS, 1993), Prospects for Change in North Korea (IEAS, 1994), and A Comparative Study of East Asian Capitalism (IEAS, 2014).

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From a British to a Chinese Colony?: Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover (CRM 75)

Contributors
Note on the Romanization of Names

Introduction. Straddling the Handover: Colonialism and Decolonization in British and PRC Hong Kong
Gary Chi-hung Luk

PART I. BRITISH COLONIAL LEGACIES
1. The Comprador System in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong
Kaori Abe

2. Government and Language in Hong Kong
Sonia Lam-Knott

3. A Ruling Idea of the Time? The Rule of Law in Pre- and Post-1997 Hong Kong
Carol A. G. Jones

PART II. HONG KONG, BRITAIN, AND CHINA(S)
4. From Cold War Warrior to Moral Guardian: Film Censorship in British Hong Kong
Zardas Shuk-man Lee

5. The Roots of Regionalism: Water Management in Postwar Hong Kong
David Clayton

PART III. DECOLONIZATION, RETROCESSION, AND RECOLONIZATION: NEW PERSPECTIVES

7. At the Edge of Empire: The Eurasian, Portuguese, and Baghdadi Jewish Communities in British Hong Kong
Felicia Yap

8. Reunification Discourse and Chinese Nationalisms
Law Wing Sang

9. From Citizens Back to Subjects: Constructing National Belonging in Hong Kong’s National Education Centre
Kevin Carrico

Index

JOURNAL REVIEWS

“The level of detail displayed and thorough coverage of the historic subtleties of economic development in each country must be applauded. The book provides an extremely useful insight and factual repository into the micromechanisms of many aspects of capitalism across East Asia.… [I]n that it more than satisfies its stated aim of alerting scholars to the urgent need for a comprehensive theory that can cover the remarkable economic performances of China, Japan, and South Korea, this book is a resounding success.” ~Alison Hulme, Royal Holloway, University of London, in Pacific Affairs 89, no. 2 (June 2016): 401–402.